- 'Leith' until Aug
1, 1903, THEN
- 'North Leith' until April 7, 1952
THEN
- 'Leith North' until it closed to
passengers on April 30, 1962

Leith Citadel (North British Railway)

on the map above was also known as North Leith

Four Passenger Stations

Trams, buses, the Caledonian
Railway and the North British Railway all competed for passengers between
Edinburgh and Leith. All of Leith's railway stations have now
closed, and the trams have vanished but are due to return in 2010.

Three of the passenger stations
that once served Leith are highlighted on the map above.

Leith's other passenger station
was South Leith. This lay to the east of Leith Citadel station.
South Leith was the first station in Leith to open and the first to close
to passengers.

Here are brief details of Leith's
four stations, including a number of name changes:

Leith North station was situated in Lindsay Road, close to the 'Ocean Terminal
entrance' to Leith Docks, a short distance to the west of Leith Citadel
station. New housing was built, in the early 2000s, on the land where
Leith North station
used to stand.

The railway ran via Newhaven, Granton Road and Craigleith to Princes
Street station at the West End of Princes Street.

Princes Street Station also had lines running to the south through the
Scottish Borders. It closed in 1964.

Stations on this
5-mile line
were:

- Princes Street

- Dalry Road

- Murrayfield

- Craigleith

- East Pilton

- Granton Road

- Newhaven

- Leith North

The station building survived into the 1990 when it was being used by a
company hiring marquees. The building has now
(2006) been demolished to allow new apartments to be built
around the entrance to Leith Docks, close to the Ocean Terminal shopping
complex.

New station at Seafield

Never used for passenger traffic

The Caledonian Railway also built a branch from this line to
Seafield. The branch ran via new stations built at Newhaven, Ferry
Road and Leith Walk and ended close to South Leith Station.

However, the line was never opened to passenger traffic.
The end of the line became Leith East Goods Station. There were also
sidings for goods traffic at Chancelot Mill, Rosebank, Leith Walk West and
Restalrig.

South Leith station was Leith's earliest station, built in
1831. The trains were originally horse-drawn.

The line ran along the Firth
of Forth, joining the East Coast Main Line from Waverley Station 2 miles
to the east at Portobello West Junction. The line still (in 2006) carries freight traffic to Leith Docks.